Phil Spencer Says Xbox One Isn't As Big In Japan Due to Preferring Games Like Persona 5 or Nioh

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WoodenPints said:

DannyDesario said:

Why do you think no 3rd parties care about the Wii U?  The ports aren't porfitable regardless of being on an extra platform (Batman, Mass Effect, ect), but they are time consuming.  If Wii U sales were lit, devs would be throwing shovelware on there left and right.  They won't make money off Xbox One if they can't even make their 10 million unit break even goal.  lol  The X1 port doesn't pay for itself.

Wii U is a different story all together for getting games ported to it compared to porting games between X1 and PS4 since it's vastly different in power and architecture, As an example If they need 10m to break even and they get that on the PS4 that's all good but then there is no profit in there for them but taking the time to make the games avaliable on Xbox One and PC even if the PS4 outsells them at 5/6 to 1 ratio thats an extra 1.5-2m sales on each of the platforms taking the total to 13-14m and the investment to make it avaliable on other platforms turns to profit.

Since they can just reuse assets, making DLC would be more profitable than throwing the game onto a platform that won't equal its port cost.  There's other paths to making profit than porting.  All I'm saying is I think Square realized they would make more money doing other things (like splitting FFVII into 3 parts and remastering games like FFX and KH2.8 at lower costs than a main game) than just relying on ports that won't meet expectations.  I just don't think an X1 port is worth it fiancially as the audience isn't there.  PC is a whole different beast since that industry is more porfitable as seen by Alan Wake making its money back in 48 hours.  Square just wastes too much money in general and the resources and money used to port to the Xbox One could go to other things like an idea similar to those garbage amiibos Nintendo makes bank off of, or other non-gaming things.  (No offense to those who buy them but they're a rip off, one has to be a huge Nintendo enthusiast to buy those)